The movement exercise was really good as the beginning of trying to get us all used to just letting go while performing. When we perform, at least for me, it does seem to be hard to actually let go, probably because we get a little self conscious, at least I do. It's definitely something that is hindering our abilities to be really good and just let go and have fun while performing. This exercise is good, but I think maybe we could do something that will make us even more comfortable around each other, the problem is that I don't really know what that could be.
The thing we are working on now, and what we will keep working on in the beginning of next year, is the sue of transparent plastic. Through it we are using reflections, shadows and different uses of light to create different looks, to add to our final production. This use of the transparent glass creates really interesting, eerie, and cool effects.
If held with either person on both sides of the glass, and hands each touching the same place on the glass, the glass will stay up and keep stable. One of the things the glass does is make it look like two people are the same person, on either side of the glass. The transparency allows there to be a sort of mixture of the two people, if held at the right height.
We were told to come up with how to mesh all the aspects we could of the glass into a storyline. We came up with having three partners, everyone went to war and one person from each pair died. Throghout the whole time the "ghosts" of the partners are haunting the live person, but really its just the guilt of the living haunting them. By the end the living get over their guilt, represented by the ghosts falling and the living catching the glass.
In the beginning of the performance our voices are recorded over a soundtrack, the voices are whispers, supposedly the ghosts saying things like "You betrayed me" and "how could you" and other things like that. Although this wasn't what we were focusing on, it was really interesting to hear ourselves and record ourselves over a soundtrack.
The last class we were working on our production as a whole, and going through it a number of times with the sound added in. At the end, Mr. Sarstedt was playing around with the glass and we realized we could make really cool effects with the reflection of the light onto the dark wall. If the glass was somehow pressed to straight, it would create different effects on the reflection on the wall, it would distort the image. We thought this was really cool but we didn;t know how we could include it into our whole production, so we decided to leave it for now.
